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Illness anxiety disorder and perception of disease and distress among medical students in western Saudi Arabia

Heba A. Ezmeirlly and Fayssal M. Farahat
Saudi Medical Journal November 2019, 40 (11) 1144-1149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.11.24654
Heba A. Ezmeirlly
From the Family Medicine (Ezmeirlly), King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital; from the Infection Prevention and Control Department (Farahat), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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Fayssal M. Farahat
From the Family Medicine (Ezmeirlly), King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital; from the Infection Prevention and Control Department (Farahat), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and from the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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